William Sluis

The holiday season is no time for consumers to turn crotchety, but so far a jubilant mood has been slow to emerge. Blame three hurricanes and soaring costs for home...

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may have one foot out the door, but he still may have some mischief in mind. With the economy humming, the world's dominant central banker...

The holiday season is upon us, and with it, a boom in hiring. Employers, hearing a jingle at the cash register, are adding to payrolls--at least on a seasonal basis....

With an autumn rally in full swing, traders were hungrily looking at the 11,000 level for the Dow Jones industrial average. But the market couldn't breach that level during an...

The nation's merchants are wondering whether the next five weeks will provide abundant joy or lumps of coal. If consumers were to pull in their wallets and ignore the ho...

Fresh numbers on the nation's trade deficit for September arrive Thursday, and don't look for signs of much improvement from the gap of $59 billion in August. Chicago economist William...

Wall Street managed to give short shrift to another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, as investors sniffed for the scent of a year-end rally. Locally, some unlikely stocks...

As the economy chugs through its fifth year of expansion, there are few meaningful signs of a slowdown. That has the Federal Reserve, which has nearly quadrupled short-term interest rates...

In the aftermath of two hurricanes that helped push the price of gasoline beyond $3 a gallon, Americans are taking a seat-of-the-pants approach to fighting back. Namely, they are staying...

It was a week that Wall Street would just as soon forget, as a hawkish Federal Reserve member's jawboning about fighting an "inflation virus" undercut positive news about coming corporate...